Forecasts of peak Florida temperatures in the 90s and high usage of its linepack prompted Florida Gas Transmission to issue an Overage Alert Day for market-area customers Tuesday. The tolerance for negative daily imbalances was set at 25%.

Gulf South plans to start one to two days of pigging maintenance Thursday on Index 300-29 (the Jack Watson Lateral), during which deliveries to Jack Watson Power Plant will be unavailable.

Tennessee said it will initiate a series of operational tests toward the end of this week of its compression on the offshore Louisiana Blue Water System at both Vermilion Block 245 and the Cocodrie Separation and Dehydration Facility. During this compressor testing, which the pipeline said it anticipated would take place over about two weeks, operators and producers attached to any segment of the Blue Water System may experience higher or lower pressures than normal. Tennessee specifically requested that all operators on the Blue Water System “take appropriate measures to ensure their equipment is set to accommodate fluctuations in pressure” that could be as low as about 630 psi or as high as 1,250 psi, the maximum allowable operating pressure.

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